2025-11-09
33 分钟Hello.
Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
This week, the Bailey Gifford Prize, the UK's most prestigious award for non-fiction,
recognizing outstanding writing and intellectual ambition from authors around the world,
has been awarded to Helen Garner, after a unanimous decision by the judges.
It's one of the most closely watched literary prizes in the international calendar,
and this year marks a first, the first time a diary has taken the award.
Garner's three volume di- project spanning 1978 to 1998 charts the making of a writer and the unraveling of a marriage with a gaze that's forensic,
unsentimental and often wickedly funny.
There are no grand speeches or invented scenes instead the real raw material of life.
Boots bought for a child, plates smashed in anger,
the domestic turning seismic and a writer determined to pin the world to the page exactly as it is.
Helen Garner, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Firstly, let's start with the prize, as I say, first diary ever to win the Bailey Gifford.
Now, I was there when it was announced in the room and you joined us on Zoom.
You looked a little shell-shocked.
What was running through your mind when you heard?
Well, I was.